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'War Plan UK', some stories and eBook edition launch YouTube video by Duncan Campbell

War Plan UK is finally available as an authorised e-book!

In the years following its publication, WPUK has become the go-to publication for those interested in the UK Government's preparations for a nuclear attack on the UK.

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In 1990 Soviet Admiral of the Fleet Konstantin Makarov made an unprecedented visit to the UK to visit the Royal Navy. From drunken parties with RN Admirals to requiring 1SL to offer 'reasons in writing' to Ministers, this was a Cold War visit like no other...

On 17 August 1982 John Rentoul and I published a detailed report in the New Statesman reporting that Margaret Thatcher’s Falkland’s War Cabinet had “contemplated using Polaris nuclear missiles against Argentina. A Polaris submarine was sent to the South Atlantic to be ready for action 'if need be'.

Thin Pinstriped Line Defence blog focusing on 21st century analysis of Cold War defence, security and continuity of government problems.

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This is incredibly realistic given the number of times Evel Knievel falls and crashes

Whenever I make a bad decision, I sit down in front of the mirror, and tell myself “at least you didn't invite the leader of an invaded war-torn country to your house and show him your collection of hats" x

Both E.coli MRE162 and Bacillus globigii are now known to be capable of causing adverse health effects in vulnerable people.

According to the UK Ministry of Defence, the Lyme Bay Trials were conducted to investigate the feasibility of large-scale Biological Warfare & investigate BW detection.

The Lyme Bay Trials 1966 YouTube video by experimentsrus

MRE Porton Down disseminated massive amounts of live bacteria across populated areas of the UK between 1963-1975.

The Lyme Bay Trials consisted of massive crosswind line releases from a ship of two types of live bacteria - E.coli MRE162 and Bacillus globigii.

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Worth a watch:

Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

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I’ve just lost my lovely gig as TV columnist with The Lady Magazine (which has gone into liquidation). If anyone knows of any writing jobs going, my CV can be found within the realms of my website www.mathew-owen.co.uk

‘I am not who you think I am’: how a deep-cover KGB spy recruited his own son The long read: For the first time, the man the KGB codenamed ‘the Inheritor’ tells his story

‘I am not who you think I am’: how a deep-cover KGB spy recruited his own son - hear the story in this Saturday’s episode. www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ap...

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

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Give them a follow, and buy some of their stuff while you're at it: wonderful small UK publisher! #booksky

'We know the Americans would keep faith with us...'

Came across this British official documentary from 1982, about Britain's nuclear deterrent, while looking for something else, and this line rather jumped out at me. #IWMcollections

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in order to qualify, you have to live in the dump zone, about 15,000 people so your chances of a free flight are quite high

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#ColdWar #PortonDown Both types of bacteria sprayed during this experiment (referred to by Porton Scientists as a field trial) are capable of causing disease in humans.

The types were:

E.coli MRE162 (isolated in 1948 from a Porton lavatory)
Bacillus globigii (aka Bacillus subtilis var niger or BG)

#ColdWar #PortonDown All residents exposed to the aerosol cloud would have inhaled/digested very large quantities of live bacteria, as the bacteria size was selected to penetrate the deepest part of the lungs - the alveoli.

This size mimicked the properties of a real Biological Warfare agent.

#ColdWar #PortonDown When the massive bacterial cloud reached land, the wind strength decreased and almost vanished.

The bacterial cloud remained over the sampling areas for many hours.

This led to the target area and its inhabitants being contaminated for a longer time than expected.

#ColdWar #PortonDown The resulting massive bacterial aerosol cloud was carried onshore by the prevailing wind and sampled in the target area by mobile teams of Porton scientists.

On this occasion, the target area was the Isle of Portland.

#ColdWar #PortonDown OTD 1964, the Admiralty ship ETV ICEWHALE slipped from Portland Naval Base and sailed to nearby Weymouth Bay.

At 22:11 ICEWHALE sailed a 4.6 mile straight-line track across Weymouth Bay, spraying massive amounts of live bacteria from spray apparatus mounted on its stern.

We became a convenient scapegoat and a target for racial hate. While U.S. forces went off to fight fascism, we became the victims of a fascist program right here at home. They built barbed wire, militarized camps to hold over 120,000 of us for the duration of the war. /2

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